Secunderabad: Anand Sai-old Seven Died After he fell to Nala who was open in Bowenpally, Bhavana Colony on June 5, 2016.
Did nalas in the trap of Cantonment Secunderabad’s death? Residents say with affirmative.
And five years after the death of Ramesh prematurely and a month after the tragic Sai’s death, very few have changed when nalas open continued to pose a threat to the population.
“We have stayed here for more than three decades.
We spent the night without sleeping for every rainy season and living with overflowing, inundant of colonies and battered streets,” Indirammanagar residents, Chandrabaabu Naidar and Sri Lanka Basthi told Tii.
There were Nalas such as Nala Hasmathpet and Picket Nala, which included more than 50 housing colonies, built during the pre-independence era and no large facelift given to them despite multiple populations and colonies in the past 20 years.
Some residents to improve Nalas have fallen on deaf-year officials from the Secunderabad Cantonment Board official (SCB).
Various associations of housing welfare in Cantonment stated that Nalas had a danger of their lives and remembered that they had lost the property of crores in 2020 floods.
“However, officials did not make improvements,” said the residents of the Royal Enclave.
Voicing concern, residents of Radhika Colony in the west of Marredpally urged the Cantonment Board to resolve the problem of Nala.
“We don’t want to repeat 2020 floods due to overflowing Nalas,” PC Suresh, a resident of Radhika Colony, said.
However, officials said steps had been taken to overcome population problems.
To ensure a free nalas flow, the Cantonment board spends Rs 50 Lakh to clean it.
“Our technical wings took a special drive by destroying as many as 70 unauthorized structures built on top of Nalas.
In some regions, nalas shrank because of garbage and encroachment,” said Senior SCB (Solid Waste Management), M Devender.
The CEO of SCB B Ajith Reddy told TiI they had approached the MA & UD Department to include SCB in the plan to develop a strategic Nala to renew and expand existing nalas.
“Civil works such as raising the retaining walls, building culvises and widening of Nalas were taken in last year’s flood view,” he said.